Elizabeth Taylor's Unexpected Role

by Rebecca Adler Warren

Images loading...

Elizabeth Taylor's Unexpected Role

"The characters she played were women to be reckoned with," writes cultural historian M.G. Lord in The Accidental Feminist (amazon.com), a suprising exploration of the decidedly feminist roles (in National Velvet, Buttefield 8, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) Elizabeth Taylor was famous for. "And many of her roles—the great and not-so-great—surreptiously brought feminist issues to American audiences held captive by those violet eyes and that epic beauty."